A few minutes after optimizing tables from within Threads I lost contact with the database. At first I just got the "ERROR only visble to admin" message. Then, and thats is the currrent status, I just get this:

My host canīt seem to find whatīs wrong. Josh (thanks again for helping out, Josh!) had a look at it, and all he could find was:"Everything is OK with Threads - but there's something wrong with your MySQL server. It's not seeing or even being able to connect to the database."

From the command line everything seems to work fine. No errors in any tables.

I need help from someone who really knows how to work with a MySQL server on a linux machine.

It has been like this for 24 hours now.

What really makes this a mess is that I am about to leave (tomorrow) for a looooong tour in Afrika, and I really need to get this done!

Allen, I am the other Admin over there at HL. Other than file level access is there any way we can get that file? We were originally getting another error. I went in and "closed" the forums so that our users wouldnt see such an ugly error. Since doing that we cant get into the control panel. Can we reopen the forum through a SQL command? I would assume its just a flag in the DB, but I cant for the life of me find the right column or table.

and now it seems that the main.inc.php doesn't have the correct location of config.inc.php. This is easily recrifiable by verifying the path and uploading main.inc.php with the correct path for your installation.